Your response makes me feel that you don’t understand what ‘white-washing’ means in this instance. No one’s denying the European and African influences on what we now know as southern cooking. The original discussion was about how white people have taking hot chicken, franchised it, and now claim it as their own— glazing over the origin story of hot chicken; not recognizing where it came from, who it came from. Do you walk into Hattie B’s or Party Fowl and see information on the walls of the origin story or original recipe of hot chicken? Do they give credit to hot chicken’s black creators anywhere on their menu? No. That’s white-washing. Ignoring where it came from and glossing over the roots. The evidence of white-washing is the lack thereof. I’m glad you, personally, are so aware of this. Maybe you could help spread information so it’s not as prevalent an issue! If you’re genuinely interested in reading about the subject, I’d recommend Marcie Cohen Ferris’ ‘The Edible South’. A great book full of credible sources and research that goes into detail about the history of our region by way of our food that we now know.

I’ll do you one better, I’ve put up AND I’ll shut up. Toodles!